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Talitha

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41. I remember it like it happened yesterday...

Mon Dec 2, 2019, 11:13 PM

Dec 2019

It was the summer between my Junior and Senior years in high school. My family was visiting relatives in Ft. Lauderdale FL and we watched it on tv... what a memory! Afterwards everyone under 20 ran outside to wave at the Moon. We thought it was an original idea but everyone up and down the block was out there doing the same thing.

I remember Walter Cronkite getting all teary-eyed. Up until then I thought he was as strong as stone but it was comforting to witness him shedding his professionalism if only for a few moments.

Fast forward 10 years, and I lay in the labour room awaiting the birth of my first child. As the pain spasms sent me to hell and back time and time again, my mind was sporadically occupied with the 10 year anniversary of the Moon landing being broadcast on the small tv anchored in the upper corner of the room. It's something I couldn't have imagined 10 years prior, as I stood on a sidewalk in Ft Lauderdale waving wildly at the Moon.

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Where were you when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon? [View all] llmart Jul 2014 OP

With my family watching the television Sanity Claws Jul 2014 #1

Me too! nt eastwestdem Jun 2016 #22

Boothbay Harbor, Maine bluedigger Jul 2014 #2

KU Music and Arts Camp. MuseRider Jul 2014 #3

Watching on TV in Columbus, Ohio. sinkingfeeling Jul 2014 #4

I was sewing my wedding veil OKNancy Jul 2014 #5

What a beautiful story.... llmart Jul 2014 #7

Lovely Joinfortmill Feb 2020 #45

My (then) husband and I were visiting friends. I kept wishing that they would all be quiet Arkansas Granny Jul 2014 #6

Working on the mission. DavidDvorkin Jul 2014 #8

Oh, come on........ llmart Jul 2014 #9

LM Rendezvous radar rendezvous error analysis DavidDvorkin Jul 2014 #10

Cool! llmart Jul 2014 #11

We used to pronounce it LEM because of the original DavidDvorkin Jul 2014 #12

I actually know that about the acronym..... llmart Jul 2014 #13

Hah! DavidDvorkin Jul 2014 #14

+100 !! (NT) PosterChild Sep 2015 #21

I honestly don't remember where I was, although I do remember it happening, of course. n/t whathehell Jul 2014 #15

Well, it WAS the '60's after all:) llmart Jul 2014 #16

Yep! whathehell Jul 2014 #17

In a tent on a mountain in West Virginia where there were no phones, no raidos, no 1monster Sep 2014 #18

Home, alone, watching SheilaT Sep 2014 #19

My grandmother kept a trailer parked on a lake in northern Minnesota, and Lydia Leftcoast Nov 2014 #20

On a family road trip to the PNW shanti Jun 2016 #23

July 20, 1969 left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 #24

Magical FreeWheatForever Sep 2016 #25

How eloquent! llmart Sep 2016 #26

BTW..... llmart Sep 2016 #27

Pure Michigan FreeWheatForever Sep 2016 #28

I think you're being facetious:) llmart Sep 2016 #29

I was in 7th grade, but I don't remember much TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #30

Wow. That's an amazing story. llmart Oct 2016 #31

Yup, first grade TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #32

home with a colicky week old baby... samnsara Feb 2017 #33

Vietnam pinboy3niner Mar 2017 #34

Bet you never forget that for as long as you live... llmart Mar 2017 #35

At work with a radio on. duncang Apr 2017 #36

Boot Camp jarhead69 Sep 2017 #37

LOL! llmart Sep 2017 #38

Vietnam.... N/T jimmil Jul 2019 #39

What? llmart Jul 2019 #40

I remember it like it happened yesterday... Talitha Dec 2019 #41

Thank you for such a wonderful story. llmart Dec 2019 #42

It's so cool that your Son works for NASA!!! Talitha Dec 2019 #43

I'll have to look that one up. llmart Dec 2019 #44

Twinkle in the eye kelly97 May 2020 #46